Ken Blanchard Quotes

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

All good performance starts with clear goals.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

What we give our attention to, grows.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.